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Though manifestations of play represent a burgeoning subject area
in the study of post-medieval responses to the Middle Ages, they
have not always received the respect and attention they deserve.
This volume seeks to correct those deficiencies. Though
manifestations of play represent a burgeoning subject area in the
study of post-medieval responses to the Middle Ages, they have not
always received the respect and attention they deserve. This volume
seeks to correct those deficiencies via six essays that directly
address how the Middle Ages have been put in play with regard to
Alice Munro's 1977 short story "The Beggar Maid"; David Lowery's
2021 film The Green Knight; medievalist archaisms in Japanese video
games; runic play in Norse-themed digital games; medievalist
managerialism in the 2020 video game Crusader Kings III; and
neomedieval architectural praxis in the 2014 video game Stronghold:
Crusader II. The approaches and conclusions of those essays are
then tested in the second section's six essays as they examine
"muscular medievalism" in George R. R. Martin's 1996 novel A Game
of Thrones; the queering of the Arthurian romance pattern in the
2018-20 television show She-Ra and the Princesses of Power; the
interspecies embodiment of dis/ability in the 2010 film How to
Train Your Dragon; late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century
nationalism in Irish reimaginings of the Fenian Cycle; post-bellum
medievalism in poetry of the Confederacy; and the medievalist
presentation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's 2020-21
Covid inoculation.
An engagement with the huge growth in neomedievalism forms the core
of this volume, with other essays testing its conclusions. The
focus on neomedievalism at the 2007 International Conference on
Medievalism, in ever more sessions at the annual International
Congress on Medieval Studies, and by many recent or forthcoming
publications has left little doubtof the importance of this new,
provocative area of study. In response to a seminal essay defining
medievalism in relationship to neomedievalism [published in volume
18 of this journal], this book begins with seven essays
definingneomedievalism in relationship to medievalism. Their
positions are then tested by five articles, whose subjects range
from modern American manifestations of Byzantine art, to the
Vietnam War as refracted through non-heterosexual implications in
the 1976 movie Robin and Marian, and versions of abjection in
recent Beowulf films. Theory and practice are thus juxtaposed in a
volume that is certain to fuel a central debate in not one but two
of the fastest growing areas of academia. Contributors: Amy S.
Kaufman, Brent Moberley, Kevin Moberley, Lesley Coote, Cory Lowell
Grewell, M.J. Toswell, E.L. Risden, Lauryn S. Mayer, Glenn Peers,
Tison Pugh, David W. Marshall,Richard H. Osberg, Richard Utz
Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the
middle ages. This volume not only defines medievalism's margins, as
well as its role in marginalizing other fields, ideas, people,
places, and events, but also provides tools and models for
exploring those issues and indicates new subjects towhich they
might apply. The eight opening essays address the physical
marginalizing of medievalism in annotated texts on medieval
studies; the marginalism of oneself via medievalism; medievalism's
dearth of ecotheory and religious studies; academia's paucity of
pop medievalism; and the marginalization of races, ethnicities,
genders, sexual orientations, and literary characters in
contemporary medievalism. The seven subsequent articles build on
this foundation while discussing: the distancing of oneself (and
others) during imaginary visits to the Middle Ages; lessons from
the margins of Brazilian medievalism; mutual marginalization among
factions of Spanish medieval studies; and medievalism in the
marginalization of lower socio-economic classes in late-eighteenth-
and early nineteenth-century Spain, of modern gamers, of
contemporary laborers, and of Alfred Austin, a late-nineteenth- and
early twentieth-century poet also known as Alfred the Little. In
thus investigating the margins of and marginalization via
medievalism, the volume affirms their centrality to the field. Karl
Fugelso is Professor of Art History at Towson University in
Baltimore, Maryland. Contributors: Nadia R. Altschul, Megan Arnott,
Jaume Aurell, Juan Gomis Coloma, Elizabeth Emery, Vincent Ferre,
Valerie B. Johnson, Alexander L. Kaufman, Erin Felicia Labbie,
VickieLarsen, Kevin Moberly, Brent Moberly, Alicia C. Montoya,
Serina Patterson, Jeff Rider, Lindsey Simon-Jones, Richard Utz,
Helen Young.
Essays on the modern reception of the Middle Ages, built round the
central theme of the ethics of medievalism. Ethics in post-medieval
responses to the Middle Ages form the main focus of this volume.
The six opening essays tackle such issues as the legitimacy of
reinventing medieval customs and ideas, at what point the
production and enjoyment of caricaturizing the Middle Ages become
inappropriate, how medievalists treat disadvantaged communities,
and the tension between political action and ethics in medievalism.
The eight subsequent articles then build on this foundation as they
concentrate on capitalist motives for melding superficially
incompatible narratives in medievalist video games, Dan Brown's use
of Dante's Inferno to promote a positivist, transhumanist agenda,
disjuncturesfrom medieval literature to medievalist film in
portrayals of human sacrifice, the influence of Beowulf on horror
films and vice versa, portrayals of war in Beowulf films, socialism
in William Morris's translation of Beowulf, bias in Charles Alfred
Stothard's Monumental Effigies of Great Britain, and a medieval
source for death in the Harry Potter novels. The volume as a whole
invites and informs a much larger discussion on such vital issues
as the ethical choices medievalists make, the implications of those
choices for their makers, and the impact of those choices on the
world around us. Karl Fugelso is Professor of Art History at Towson
University in Baltimore, Maryland. Contributors: Mary R. Bowman,
Harry Brown, Louise D'Arcens, Alison Gulley, Nickolas Haydock, Lisa
Hicks, Lesley E. Jacobs, Michael R. Kightley, Phillip Lindley,
Pascal J. Massie, Lauryn S. Mayer, Brent Moberley, Kevin Moberley,
Daniel-Raymond Nadon, Jason Pitruzello, Nancy M. Resh, Carol L.
Robinson, Christopher Roman, M.J. Toswell.
Definitions of key words and terms for the study of medievalism.
The discipline of medievalism has produced a great deal of
scholarship acknowledging the "makers" of the Middle Ages: those
who re-discovered the period from 500 to 1500 by engaging with its
cultural works, seeking inspiration from them, or fantasizing about
them. Yet such approaches - organized by time period, geography, or
theme - often lack an overarching critical framework. This volume
aims to provide such a framework, by calling into question the
problematic yet commonly accepted vocabulary used in Medievalism
Studies. The contributions, by leading scholars in the field,
define and exemplify in a lively and accessible style the essential
terms used when speaking of the later reception of medieval
culture. The terms: Archive, Authenticity, Authority, Christianity,
Co-disciplinarity, Continuity, Feast, Genealogy, Gesture, Gothic,
Heresy, Humor, Lingua, Love, Memory, Middle, Modernity, Monument,
Myth, Play, Presentism, Primitive, Purity, Reenactment, Resonance,
Simulacrum, Spectacle, Transfer, Trauma, Troubadour Elizabeth Emery
is Professor of French and Graduate Coordinator at Montclair State
University (Montclair, NJ, USA); Richard Utz is Chair and Professor
of Medievalism Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and
Communication at Georgia Tech (Atlanta, GA, USA). Contributors:
Nadia Altschul, Martin Arnold, Kathleen Biddick, William C. Calin,
Martha Carlin, Pam Clements, Michael Cramer, Louise D'Arcens,
Elizabeth Emery, Elizabeth Fay, Vincent Ferre, Matthew Fisher, Karl
Fugelso, Jonathan Hsy, Amy S. Kaufman, Nadia Margolis, David
Matthews,Lauryn S. Mayer, Brent Moberly, Kevin Moberly, Gwendolyn
Morgan, Laura Morowitz, Kevin D. Murphy, Nils Holger Petersen, Lisa
Reilly, Edward Risden, Carol L. Robinson, Juanita Feros Ruys, Tom
Shippey, Clare A. Simmons, Zrinka Stahuljak, M. Jane Toswell,
Richard Utz, Angela Jane Weisl.
Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the
middle ages, with a particular focus on its relationship with
business and finance. Academia has never been immune to corporate
culture, and despite the persistent association of medievalism with
escapism, perhaps never has that been more obvious than at the
present moment. The six essays that open the volume explore
precisely how financial institutions have promoted, distorted,
appropriated, resisted, and repudiated post-medieval
interpretations of the middle ages. In the second part of the book,
contributors explore medievalism in a variety of areas, juxtaposing
specific case studies with broader investigations of the
discipline's motives and methods; they include Charles Kingsley's
racial Anglo-Saxonism, Jessie L. Weston's Sir Gawain and the
treatment of womenin medievalist film. The book also includes a
spirited response to previous Studies in Medievalism volumes on the
topic neomedievalism. Contributors: Harry Brown, Henrik Aubert,
Helen Brookman, Pamela Clements, KellyAnnFitzpatrick, Jil Hanifan,
Michael R. Kightley, Felice Lifshitz, Lauren S. Mayer, Brent
Moberley, Kevin Moberley, E. L. Risden, Carol L. Robinson, M. J.
Toswell, J. Ruben Valdes Miyares
Medievalism examined in a variety of genres, from fairy tales to
today's computer games. As medievalism is refracted through new
media, it is often radically transformed. Yet it inevitably retains
at least some common denominators with more traditional responses
to the middle ages. This latest volume of Studies inMedievalism
explores this phenomenon with a special section on computer games,
examining digital echoes of the medieval past in subjects ranging
from the sovereign ethics of empire in Star Wars to gender identity
in on-line role playing. Medievalism in more conventional venues is
also addressed, ranging from early French fairy tales to
nineteenth-century neo-Byzantine murals. Great innovation and
extraordinary continuity are thus juxtaposed not only within each
article but also across the volume as a whole, in yet further
testimony to the exceptional flexibility and enduring relevance of
medievalism. CONTRIBUTORS: ALICIA C. MONTOYA, ALBERT D. PIONKE,
GRETCHENKREAHLING MCKAY, CHENE HEADY, BRUCE C. BRASINGTON, STEFANO
MENGOZZI, CAROL L. ROBINSON, OLIVER M. TRAXEL, AMY S. KAUFMAN,
BRENT MOBERLY, KEVIN MOBERLY, LAURYN S. MAYER
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